Everywhere, reasons to be angry

And then I remember – I haven’t changed my HRT patch

“The Nightmare”, 1781, Henry Fuseli (held in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, image in the public domain)

A big feature article due in a week. A stadium concert sends apocalyptic echoes through the neighbourhood for two nights. The new milk is curdled. Caterpillars chew up the basil seedlings (and the kale and the mint and the perilla). …